
Mikkel Gaup
Actor · b. 1968 · Alta, Norway
Movies20
Movie7.5DramaRomanceIn a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
Breaking the Waves
1996 · 1.1K votes
Movie6.9AdventureAround the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the family's teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Sámi whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his family's murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Sámi. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp.
MovieDramaMusicSámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project. Amid the growing protests, she is also confronted with deeply buried family traumas. Maia is forced to make a decision.
Árru
2027
Movie6.3ComedyActionAfter two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.
Movie7.0DramaDuring summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with the derogatory jokes. When her cousin Mikkhal takes her to a camp by the Alta River, where people are demonstrating against the building of a dam, Ester learns how the fight for the river is also a revolt against the years of brutal racism and discrimination against her people. After a major confrontation with the police, Mikkhal and some other Sámi decide to go to Oslo to hunger strike in front of the Parliament. Knowing what is at stake, Ester realises it is time to make a stand…
Movie10.0DramaMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Macbeth
2004 · 1 votes
Movie5.4AnimationComedyFour stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceTwo teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
The Miracle
1991 · 21 votes
Movie5.3HorrorThrillerDriving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one creepy incident after another leaves them stranded in the dark woods and everything seems much too bizarre to be accidental.
Movie5.5DramaElvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.
Movie6.1DramaHistoryReligious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
Movie5.7ComedyRomanceA man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.
MovieDramaHistoryBirte from Aursfjord, a strong-willed young woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, falls in love with a Sámi, but is forced to marry a local man.
Movie6.5DramaGerman businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet's home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten's wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend's pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.
Gavagai
2016 · 4 votes
Movie3.7FamilyAdventureMr. Fumblebody is a clumsy, but kindhearted unemployed lawyer who picks a fight with the powerfull and reckless Rex Dobbermann. Mr. Dobbermann has decided to eliminate all the cat's in the small town Kattesand. Mr. Dobberman's beautiful daughter Tess on the other hand tries to save her own dear cat from her father, and Mr. Fumblebody does everything he can to help her.
Fomlesen i kattepine
1999 · 3 votes
Movie6.6DramaComedyA young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine Se og Hør. We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the country's largest weekly magazine.
En helt vanlig dag på jobben
2010 · 8 votes
Movie7.0DramaComedyA charismatic womanizer is deprived of his leadership and betrayed by his own people.
Ellos Sápmi
2015 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryThe Isogaisa festival runs for a week starting with lectures, workshops and nature walks from Monday until Thursday and then has its main events during the weekend. Another festival in this area of Norway is Riddu Riddu that is similar in the way that it has a focus on Sami culture and connection to other indigenous people but is without the focus on shamanism, traditional beliefs and practices. The festival 2014 included joiking courses, name giving ceremonies, shaman performances, chocolate ceremony, concerts, folklore, dance parties, nightlife, archery training and much more.
Movie7.4AdventureFamilyCityboy Niilas (12) is sent to his mother in Lapland. The only one succeeding in making contact with him is his new sister Suna (11). She takes him on a journey in the magical woods where shy Niilas turns into a wild cloudboy.
Cloudboy
2017 · 8 votes
Movie7.9DramaSet in a mid-century American psychiatric hospital where time seems to stand still. The story follows Jean, a French artist and inpatient, and Monique, a young woman who becomes fixated on him after being transferred to the facility following a failed escape attempt.
Inside/Out
1998 · 7 votes
Series5
TVComedyAction & AdventureZulu Djævleræs is a Danish reality television programme, currently hosted by Julie Ølgaard. Every episode consists of 3 heats. The first two heats consists of all-men and all-women driving against each other. In the third heat, "Djævleheatet", the couples themselves choose who is to drive. This heat includes obstacles, which change from episode to episode. In the third heat the drivers fights for double points.
ZULU Djævleræs
2007
TV7.0FamilyJul i Blåfjell
1999 · 5 votes
TV7.2Action & AdventureDramaChristmas on the Moontop is a Norwegian christmas series. It was produced and sent on NRK in 2002 with replays in 2005, 2010 and 2014. Idea and screenplay by Gudny Ingebjørg Hagen. Christmas on the Moontop was the successor to Christmas in Blåfjell and Amalies Christmas. Directed by Torunn Calmeyer Ringen.
Jul på Månetoppen
2002 · 4 votes
TV8.0DramaSolens sønn og månens datter
1993 · 1 votes
TV7.5ComedyKristian Valen gives us breakfast-TV for B-humans in the best airtime. Valen plays the always tired and unprepared showhost Nils Georg, that takes you through half an hour of energic parodies of celebrities and TV-shows. This is a show with music, news, sport and last but not least TV-kitchen with a new celebrity-chef every week.
Valens Frokost-TV
2009 · 2 votes